• Ad Placed : 03 Nov 2019 21:00:03 Affiliate ad
• Remuneration : PER YEAR
• Employment Type : Contract
• Employment Level : Senior Management
• Industry :
• Medical
  Other Medical
• Region : Kwazulu-Natal
• Company : AJ Personnel

A Research Nurse (FTC until June 2020) vacancy is available at our Client, Wits Health Consortium’s MatCH (Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research) Research Unit (MRU) in Durban in Kwa-Zulu Natal.

Background

Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited (“WHC”) is a wholly owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health Sciences. WHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research and other activities necessary to support its academic objectives. In addition WHC offers a range of products and services to the Academics conducting these activities in order to assist with the management thereof.

MRU (MatCH Research Unit) is a division of the Wits Health Consortium under the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of the Witwatersrand. We are committed to supporting the millennium development goals aimed at gender equity, maternal and child health and combatting HIV. Our work focuses on sexual and reproductive health with research and we conduct clinical, behavioural, operations and implementation science research and support health systems strengthening including capacity building and technical support.

Main Purpose of the Job

• To provide best practice data collection, clinical assessments, comprehensive counselling and management, collection and processing of specimens and care according to protocols and to provide HIV testing
• To screen and enrol participants into the study, and to conduct on-going follow-up based on the research protocols

Location

• Commercial City Site, Durban

Key Performance Areas

• • Participant recruitment, consenting, enrolment and counselling according to protocol
• • Obtain medical history and perform physical examinations and STI/RTI assessments
• • Perform HIV and pregnancy testing and advise participant of results
• • Collect blood and other specimens for testing as per protocol
• • Prepare study related blood samples for temporary storage and collection by Laboratory Company
• • Prepare, run, and record laboratory tests/ procedures according to the lab and/or study protocol
• • Monitor and controls stock levels applicable to the study within the laboratory
• • Perform regular equipment maintenance
• • Collect, record and maintain data and study documentation according to ALCOA principles
• • Transcribe all source document data into CRFs and Quality control CRFs and other study documents
• • Assist the Project Manager in the control and ordering of consumable stock
• • Report writing, administration and training

Required minimum education and training

• Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery
• Driver’s licence

Professional body registration

• Registration with South African Nursing Council

Minimum work experience

• 3 years nursing experience in the fields of maternal care, sexual reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections
• Drawing and preparing blood samples

Desirable additional education, work experience and personal abilities

• Research and Laboratory experience is preferable
• Diploma in Primary Health Care or similar in preferable
• GCP Certification
• Good administrative skills together with working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Good communication (be fluent in Zulu and English) and organisational skills and ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
• Laboratory experience is preferable, but not essential

TO APPLY

• Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
• Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.
• In accordance with our Employment Equity goals and plan, preference will be given to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.

Please note that AJ PERSONNEL is only responsible for the advertising of the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.

AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position.

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